Ref Review 2013/13 part 8 SOUTHAMPTON. An extraordinary mixture

By Walter Broeckx

This article is part of the series of the Referee Review 2013. You can find links to earlier articles on the bottom of this article.

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Having dealt with the different teams and after having examined all the Premier League refs (leading to the best ref of the season according to the views of our referee reviewers) we now bring you an easy guide as to who is good or bad to have as a ref for each individual team.

We will of course bring you this in order so that from now on if you see that your team is playing and there is a certain ref assigned you can see in a blink of an eye if this ref has a bad or a good history with your team. At least in the season 2012/2013. And if all goes well we will even try to add the bias from the season before in to each article. And that way you can see if there are any possible situations that return from one year to the next.

And we do this because it might well be that some referee performances are a one off. But if a ref has the same bias against a team it might show something more. For if a ref has a big bias in favour of a team it also is saying something about that ref.

A little word of explanation about the graphics below. The ultimate referee performance would be that the bias score (which is based on the wrong decisions) of around zero. Alas you will find very few of those scores in the total series. So the zero line will be the middle line of each graphic.

If a ref has positive bias score for the team involved you will see a name (of the ref) and a green line and a number. That is the bias number for that ref.

On the other hand if the ref had a negative bias you will once again see a name but then with a red line and a number. The negative bias score for that ref.

The longer the lines, the higher the number and the higher the bias that ref produces. Short lines are better and would be nicer for us all, if only the world worked that way. I also included a little table in the graphic just with the names and with a red or green label. This is for any readers who want to have a quick look at the names as sometimes the numbers can get in the way.

Next in our series is Southampton

We were able to review nine different refs in the games we reviewed of Southampton.

And one ref had a zero bias. That was ref Kevin Friend. Good job.

We also should praise Swarbrik as he also had almost a perfect score. A very low positive bias. The positive bias from Moss is still OK in a way.

But the same cannot be said of the bias from Probert. Way too high.

On the negative side we see that ref Dean had a very low bias score against Southampton. And also Mason was still acceptable one could say.

But a bad ref for Southampton was Clattenburg. He surely had a bad day in a Southampton game.

But the score from Taylor and Webb is totally unacceptable. What a very big bias against them.

I now would have loved to add the numbers from the season before. But as we lost some numbers in the cyber attack on our site last year I cannot give them any more.